Combination cash-register and scale.



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WILLIAM H. MUZZY, or DAYTON, OHIO, Assre on TO THE NATIONAL CASH :aEeIs'rEn. comrANv, or DAYTON, OHIO, A coRronA'noN 1110, (INCORPORATED IN 1906.)

COMBINATION CASH- 1,117,224. Specification 0 .To all whom it may concern: 1

Be it. known. that I,.W11.LIAM H. Muzzy,

a citizen of the United States, residing at Dayton, inthe county of Montgomery and State of Ohio, have invented certain new .and useful Improvements in Combination Cash-Registers and Scales, of which'I declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description,

. This invention relates to improvements 1n cash registers and has more particular relation to improvements in combination regis ters and scales. a The object. of the invention 1s to provide a mechanism whereby the amount of the sale being determined and the rate per unit, a

signal will be given the operator when the proper quantity of the article'being weighed has been placed on the scale.

A further object of the-invention is to provide a mechanism in connection with a cdmbination scale and register to compel the registration of the amount of the sale before the customer or operator can ascertain if the proper amount has been weighed.

With these and incidental objects in view, the invention consists in certain novel features of construction and combinations of parts, the essential elements of which a'res'et.

forth in appended claims and a. preferred form of embodiment of which is hereinafter specifically described with reference to the.

drawings which accompany and form part of this specification.

Of said drawings: Figure 1, represents a ing a part of the present invention. Fig. 2, represents a vertical section through the same. Fig. 3, represents a detall vertlcal section through one of the commutator sets.

' Fig. 4, re resents afragmentary view of a 'portion 0 the scale dial and pointer. Fig. 5, represents a rear elevation of the devices embodying my invention; and Fig. 6, represents a front. elevation of a scale'showing the electrical connections with the register in diagram.

In a large number of stores at the present time, thecustomers have ac'qmred the habit of asking'for as much of certain articles as they can purchase for. a given amount of money. For instance; it 1s a common re- ,quest ingrocery stores to say: Please give' me a dollars worth of sugar, or someother article. i In other words, the customer knows REGISTER AND SCALE.

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Patented Nov. 1'7, 1914. Application med ugust 3,1901. Serial No. 386,854.

the rate per unit of the commodity, but does I not care to stop to figure up 11 ust how many pounds he should receive.

his is particularly applicable to the smaller stores doing a credit business limited to small accounts.

The present invention is designed to take care automatically of requests of this nature. The register may be used by itself. The

scale may also'be used by itself, but if, at

any time, it is desired to have the machine calculate just "how much of any particular article should begiven for a certain amount 'of money, this can be instantly done. To

accomplish this resultv in the present in- .stance,I provide a lever which when set to.

the amount which it is desired to spend, will set the accounting mechanism herein shown as a totaling or registering device to re 'ster a corresponding amount when the handle of the machine is operated. One of a series of keys is then operated according to the rate per unit of the article, the crank handle of -the register is then turned, the article being weighed is then placed on the scale, a small' quantity at a time until the proper amount has been weighed, when a signal will be given the operator and he will know that the v proper number of units, according to the amount registered has been weighed. In the present instance this signal is in the form of a bell which starts to ring immediately when the proper weight is reached.

, The register forming a part of my invention is of .a type shown in the patent to Thomas Carroll, No. 773,053, granted Oct.

sprin balance type. Re erring to Fig. 2, it will be seen that the setting lever 1 is fastened at its inner end to asegmental rack plate 2 which meshes with gear teeth 3 'the lower end of a vertical rack plate 3, theupper end of which engages a pinion 4 secured to an indicator 5, which is arranged to display'the amount of the purchase at the front and back of the machine. The rack plate 3 is alined in its various set tings by a spring actuated plunger co-acting with V shaped notches 3" m a plate fast to plate 3 as shown in Fig. 2. Thelever 1 as shown in Fig. 1' plays through a slot 6 formed in the cabinet 7 of the machine, and is provided with a pointer 25, 1904, while. the scale is of an ordinary cabinet 7. Thisi-plate 1s provided with nu- 11o merals from to $1.00 in multiples of five which is also true of the indicator 5..

A pin 10, see Fig. 2, mounted upon the segment 2 plays v in zig-zag cam slot 11 I rack plate 12. This plate is provided with elongated slots 13 and 14 through which extend pins 15 secured to the rack plate 3 and a transverse shaft 16 respectively; By

means of these slots, pins and shaft, the plate 12.is guided-in its upward movement. The shape of the cam groove 11 is such that the plate 12 is only moved upward when the setting lever 1 ismoved to a position representing a multiple of ten.

The odd multiples of five are registered in the followingmanner A'rack plate 17 is ivoted at its lower end to a projection 1 8v extending from a tie bar 19. This rack is drawn rearwardly by .a coil spring 20 one end of which is fastened to the upper end of the rack and the other end to a pin secured to the back frame of the-machine. The rear side of the rack plate 17 isprovided with 'a series of notches 21 in which plays a pin 22 projecting from the rack plate 3. The relation between the pin 22 and the notches 21 is such that when the lever 1 is moved to an odd multiple of five the pin and notches are held forward against the tension of the spring 20. When. the lever 1 is at a multiple of ten the rack 17 is drawn rearwardly so that the counter 23 in the downward 351 movement given to it by-the cam disks 24 and arms 25 will not be actuated by said rack. This rack is provided with five teeth so that when it is ina position to actuate the units wheel of the counter, it will turn fsaid wheel five spacesor a half revolution.

The rack bar 12 which is moved upon every-alternate five cent step of movement of the, setting lever 1, is provided with a sumcient number of teeth to give the tens wheel 46 the settinglever 1 is occupying the dollar position and the counter moved downwardly. Suitable transfer mechanism is provided so thatupon a complete revolution of a wheel one will be added to the wheel of the next higher denomination.

' The rack bar 3 is provided withan additional set of teeth 26 upon its rear side which mesh witha pinion 27 secured to a transverse shaft 28. Fastened to this shaft is a series of arms 29, each one 'carrying a contact plunger 30 at itsouter end, see Fig.

3. Loosely mounted upon the shaft 28 but held from'rotation therewith and adjacent to the arms 29 are a series of disks 31 one for each arm 29. Each disk is provided with twenty contact posts 32, any one of which 1 the contact plunger 30 may be brought into engagement with. Each disk31 is provided with a collar into which project two pins33 formed in the lower end of a registering,

out of alinement so that the rack plate 17 is of the counter a complete revolution when from the upper bi'furcated end 34' of an arm 35 which is pivoted-at 36 to the back frame of the machine, see Figs. 2 and 5.. The pins 33 prevent rotary movement of the disks 31 while at the same time they are" used to shift 7Q said disks laterally. The lower ends ofthe arms 36 are beveledas at 37 see Fig. 5, and

' these beveled ends are arranged to. be en gaged by the rear ends of'the rate per unitkeys 38 which are pivoted upon the transverse shaft-16 with their front ends extending through the cabinet 7 as shown inFig. 1. 1

It will be seen by reference to Fig- 5' that when'therear end ofany one of the keys 38 is raised, it will-cam the end 37 of w l the arm 36 to the right thereby swinging the bifurcated upper end and its companion disk,31 to the left against the tension of a spring 39 which surrounds. the shaft 28 and normally holds the contact plunger 30 of the arm 29 out of contact with the posts 320i the disk 31; There is one of these springs 39 for each arm- 29 and its companion Y disk 31.

Extending inwardly from the back frame w are projections 40, see Fig. 2, to which are pivoted two forwardly extending arms 41 which supporta transverse bar 42. This bar carries a series of pendent arms 43 having their lower ends beveled. When any disk is shifted as above described, it'will contact with its arm 43 and rock the frame "by elevating the bar 42. After the disk passes under the arm 43, the frame again drops into place, locking the disk in position. Should the, depression of another amount per pound key be attempted, the

rocking upward of the frame41will sep- 'arate the contact lever 61 and contact 67- and thus prevent the sounding of the signal until after the register is again operated. Thls construction-prevents the repeating of transactionswithout registration.

When the operator removes hislfinger from the rate per unit key, it returns imme- A10 diately to normal position, and the disk 31 settles back against its pawl. In order to allow this settling back of the disk and at the same time to, prevent the breaking of Vas'the arm 43 remains onthe side of the disk 31 opposite to that shown in Fig. 5. V When it is desired to register another sale the settm z-lever 1 is moved and by this movement be displaced disk is released and its -spring 39 returns it to normal position by the following means: Fastened, to the side of the rack plate 3', is a plate 47 shown in dotted lines in Fig. 2, which is provided at its rear side with V shaped notches 48, 18

corresponding in number to the positions occupied by the lever '1. Resting in the second notch from the upper end is the lower end I of a pawl 49which is pivoted to the forward thereby releasing any of the disks 31 that,

may have'been. latched. A series of key stops '52, as shown in Fig.5, are provided to prevent the depressing of -more than one key at the same time. As this form of key stop's is well knownin the art, it is not thought necessary to describe them further.

As before mentioned, the scale is of an ordinary spring balance type and is provided with a pan. 53 and a'dial 54. A

pointer 55 is pivoted in the center of said dial and is arranged to be rotated as the pan is lowered by the weight of the article placed thereon. The dial is divided into twenty-one divisions and each division is subdivided into twelve smaller divisions.

Each main and subdivision is provided with afcontactpost 56 from which a wire 57 runs to its corresponding contact-post 32 on the disks 31 located within the register.

i A leaf spring see Fig. 4, secured to the outer end of the pointer 55 is arranged to. wipe over all-of the contact posts 56 as the dial is rotated and when it strikes --a contact 56 whose wire 57 is connected to a post 32 of one of the disks 31 which is in contact with the plunger 30 of one of the arms 29, a bell 55 is rung, see Fig. 6.

When the arms 41 are raised by the movement-,of the lever 1 as before described, a pin 58 projecting from one of the arms 41 raises a link 59, see Fig. 2, by engagingthe upper end of an elongated slot 60 formed in said link. The lower end of this link is secured to' theforward end of a contact pawl -61 which is pivoted to an arm 62 projecting upwardly from the tie bar 19. I The rearend of the pawl 61 is beveled in opposite directions as at 63 and engaging with this beveled end is a spring pressed-plunger 64 which prevents the accidental movement of said pawl from either of its adjusted po:

sitions. Extending rearwardly from the arm 62 is a projection 65 equipped with a laterally extending flange 66 which limits the movement of the pawl 61 in. one direction. A contact block 67 mounted on the tie bar 19 is normally in engagement with the contact pawl 61. It will be seen from the above that when the setting lever 1 is moved,

[85 it will raise the arms 41 thereby releasing the latched disk and also breaking the contact between the pawl 61 and the block 67 A pin 68 extending upwardly from the pawl 61 moves into the path of a cam 69, fast upon a rotary shaft 70, whenlthe contact between the pawl and block is broken, so that when the shaft 7 0 is rotated by the operating crank 70* and gearing 72, the pawl 61 will be cammed back into contact with the block 67 as shown in Fig. 2.

Having thus described in detail, the different parts of my invention, its mode ofoperation will now be described in general terms: Upon a customer asking for a dollars worth of sugar, at a price of five cents per poundthe operator moves the lever 1 opposite the dollar markupon the index plate 9, which movement raises the rack 3 and rotates the indicator 5 so it will show one dollar at both the front and the back of the machine. This movement of the lever 1 will also raise therack plate12 a distance of ten teeth by the pin.10 and the slot 11, so that when the totalizer 23 is lowered, as described in the Carroll patent to which reference was made, the tens wheel of said totalizer will be given a complete revolu-. tion thereby tripping the transfer pawl for the dollar wheel,and'as the totalizer is returned, the dollar wheel will be moved one space. The pin 22 projecting from the plate 3 will at that time be in one of the notches 21 of the rack plate 17, sothat this plate will not actuate the units wheel of the counter when the latter is lowered. The upward movement of the rack plate will rock the pawl 49 so. as to raise the arms 41 and the arms 43 to release any latched disk. As'the left-hand one of the arms 41 (looking from the rear) is raised, a pin 58 carried thereby will raise the link 59 which in turn will rock the pawl 61 to break the contact. with block 67; The elevation of the contact posts 32 of the disks 31. Now upon depressing the rate per unit key 38, which in this case isfive cents, it will rock the arm 35 thereby sliding the five cent disk to the left, see Fig. 5,.which will be latched in this 7 position by one of the arms 43 with the dollar contact post 32 in contact with the plunger, 30,'while the key 38 is free to return to its normal position. If the sugar is now placed on the scale, no alarm will besounded on account of. the contact between the pawl 61-and the post 67 being broken. As this contact can only be made bythenrotation of the shaft 70, it will be seen that an operation of the accounting mechanism is required before the alarm can be sounded. After having operated thecrank 70 to produce this operation, the sugar is placed upon the scale pan and when the spring 55 -011 the pointer 55 touches the contact post 56 of the twenty pound division of the dial 54, the circuit will be completed in the following manner it being remembered that the contact 61-67 is closed by the operation of the crank 70: from the post 56, through wire 57 to the dollar concontacts just beyondthe proper weight and exactly divisible, into twelfths by the price per pound. For example: If a customer-dc sires fifteencents worth of an article, the price per pound of which is eight cents, the bell should ring when the pointer passes beiniaaaa stood that" this is only one of many forms that may be employed to secure the same resalts and the present invention is not limited 111 any respect to this particular form. It

will also be understood that I do not limit myself to a combination with a scale of a registering device or mechanism as the amount setting lever may, if desired, control any form of accounting mechanism whether it be an indicator, a printer, a register or any similar mechanism.

.The accounting mechanism shown in the present case takes the form of a totalizer or i registering device, but, it'will readily be understood that other equivalents in the art may be employed. ltis further to be noted that some of the claims in thepresent case do not include the totalizer or registering mechanism and it will be evident. that the machine would be operative and of value without the inclusion of this element, serving under such conditions as a computer "though not retaining in the machine a rectween the ten and eleven twelithsof the sec-* ond main division of the scale dial, but as there is no contact between said subdivisions, the bell will not ring until the pointer reaches the eleven twelfths contact, with which the wire running from the fifteen cents contact post of the eight cents disk is connected. In some instances, as in the above, the wires are connected to the scale in otherinstances, just below; These variations on-the average ofiseteach other, and they are now ofdaily occurrence to users of computing scales unless they are exceedingly carefuh lt will'be seen from-the above tliat should a careless clerk place too much of the commodity onthe scale, that the bell will only ring for an instant and he will be compelled to remove the excess weight in order to cause b the bell to ring long enough to show that the scale has cometoa balance at the proper I point. The proprietor, his fellow clerks and the customer will thus know that the proper weight hasbeen given according to .the amount of cash to be expended. The

calculation is absolutely automatic and the clerk or operator has "nothing to compute whatever, he simply sets up the amount which the customer Wishes to spend and the price of the article per pound, the ringing of the bell then informs himthat the'proper amount has been weighed. It will be further seen that after the clerk has setup the amount of'the purchase and the price per pound, he is compelled to operate the crank handle and thus complete the operation of the accounting mechanism, as otherwise the circuit "will not be completed and the bell will not be sounded at all.

While Ihave shown one form of contact maker to be set up by the registeringlever and the rate per unit keys,-I wish it under- 0rd of the several transactions. l/Vith this mode of operation the setting of'the handle 1 and operation of the rate per unitkey 38 would be followed by the placing of the weights on the scale so that when the proper amount was placed on, the indicator would be actuated though no registration has taken place. It is preferred, however, to employ the totalizer or registering mechanism inasmuch as this retains inthe machine a record of all the transactions and furnishes a more 100 complete mechanism.

'While the form of -mechanism' herein shown and described is admirably adapted to fulfil the objects primarily stated, it is to be understood that it is not intended toconfine the invention to the one form of embodiment herein disclosed, for it isv susceptible in various forms all coming within the scope of the claims which follow.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. In a machine of the class described, the combination with an accounting and a'wighing device, of devices for designating the amountto be entered onv the accounting mechanism, a signal, and connections for operating said signal controlled by said designating means and said weighing device.

2. In a machine of theclass. described, the combinatioirwith an accountingv mechanism and aweighmg device, of devices for designating the total-amount to be entered on said accounting mechanism, rate per unit mechanism, a signal, and setsof connections actuating said signal, all controlled by said designating devices and said weighing device and each set being also controlled by a corresponding element of the rate per unit mechanism.-

'- 3. In a machine-of the class described, the

combination with an accounting mechanism,

- and a weighing device, of devices for designating the amount .to be entered on said accounting mechamsm, rate per unit mechanism, a slgnal, circuits 'for actuating said signal, and connections controlled 'by said rate er unit mechanism-and said designating. evices and finally controlled by said weighing device forv closing one .of said circuits.

4. In amachine' of the class described, the

combination with an'ac'counting device,,of

controlling mechanism therefor, weighing mechanism, a price per pound device, connections intermediate said mechanisms and device, a signal, means for bringing said signal into'action when the proper quantity has been placed on the weighing mechanism according to the cash amount of the transaction, and means controlled by the operation of the accounting device for preventingthe operation of the signal until after the accounting device is operated. 1

5. In a' machine of the class described, the combination with an accounting mechamsm and a welghmg mechanism, of devlces for designating the total amount to be entered,

on said accounting mechanism, a signal, circuits .for said signal controlled by said designatingimeans, and devices actuated by said weighing mechanism for finally closing said circuits.

' 6. In a machine of the class described, the combination with a device for designating total amounts, of rate per unit devices, a weighing mechanism, a signal, circuits selectively controlled by said designating device and said rate per unit devices and including said signal, and an element moved by said weighing deviceconstructed to close finally the circuit selected by the designating device.

7. In a machine-of the class described,,the combination with a device for designating total amounts, including rotary circuit selecting armsbearing contact points, of a plurality of series of contact points positioned to be swept over by sa1d arms, a signal, c1rcuits including said signal and said contact points, a weighing mechanism, and means controlled thereby for finally closing the circuit selected by one of the designating 'device arms.

8. In a machine of the class described, the

' combination with a device ion-designating total amounts, of rate per unlt devices, a

signal, signal controlling mechanism differentially positioned by said designating de-' vice, and independently controlled weighing mechanism, and means actuated by sa1d weighing mechanism for actuating said signal controlling mechanism only a t er movement of said weighmg mechamsm to an extent determined by the. signal controlling mechanism and the rate per unit devices.

9. afmachine of the class described, the combinationwith a totalizer and a weighing device, of an operating mechanism for the totalizer, manipulative means for determinmg the amount-to be added to the totalizer, means controlled by said weighing device for indicating when the proper quantity has been weighed, and devices for preventing operation of said indicating means until the combination with atotalizer. and a scale, of

an operating mechanism for said totalizer, manipulative means" for determining the amount to be added on said totalizer,-means controlled by said scale for indicating when thedesired amount has been weighed, and

means for rendering saidindicating means ineffective until the operating mechanism has been actuated.

12. In a'machine ofthe class described, the combination witha weighing mechanism including a series of electrical contacts for different weights, of a series of price'per pound controlling devices provided with a plurality of contacts, electrical connections intermediate said-contacts of the weighing mechanism and the price per pound devices and cash account determining devices also included in the electrical circuits whereby the live contacts of the weighing mechanism will correspond in amount to the quotient derived by dividing the value 'ofth cash' amount by the-price per ound substantially as and for the purpose escribed. f

13, In a machine of the class described, the combination with a weighing mechanism, of total price devices comprising a plurality of controlling means, rate er unit mechamsms with connections there om for rendering said cont'rollingmea'ns separately effective, a signal, and connections for operating said signal controlled by said weighing .mechanism and the effective controlling means of the total price devices. v

14. In .a'machine of the class described, the

combination with a weighing mechanism, of

totalprice devices comprising a plurality of differentially adjustable arms, rate per un1t mechanisms with connections for separately rendering said arms efi'ective, a signal and devices controlled by said weighing mechanism and the efl'ective arm of the total prlce devices for actuating said signal.

15. In a machine of the class described,

the combination with weighing am msm including. a contact device, of total price devices comprising aplurality of difseparately moved by said rate per unit mechanisms to cotipera tejwith said adjustable arms, a signal, and actuating devices for said signal controlledby said movablev tion to the. weight .em

devices comprising ifierentially a justi for, controlled y the movable device of theerentially adjustable contact arms, rate per unit mechanisms with connections for sepa-v rately rendering said contact arms efiective,

"" signal, andelectrical connections includving the contact device and said contact arms for actuating said signal.

16QIn amachine of the class described, the combination' with a weighing mechanism including a movable arm, of total price devices comprising a plurality i of arms differentially adjustable as a whole, rate per unit mechanisms, controlling means arm and said adjustable arms.

17; Ina machine of the class described,

the combination with a weighing mechanism, including a device movable in proporloyed, of totalrice able manuallyoperated controlling mechanisms, .a signal and actuating means thereweighing mechanism and the controlling rality mechanisms of the total price device. 7 18. In a machine of he class described,

the combination with a weighing mechanism including a movable device, of a pluof differentially adjustable arms, total price mechanism controlling the adjustment of. said arms, asignal, and connections for actuating said signal controlled by both said movable device and said manually adjustable arms.

19'. In a machineof the class described,

the combination with a' weighing mechanism, includin a movable device, of differentia'lly a' ustable arms, total price Imechanism controlling the adjustment of said arms, a signal, and a plurality of connections for operat ng said signal, said connections being constructed to be controlled by both said movable device and said ad-- jnstable arms, and each connection joining said device and one of saidarms at points miaaaa" whose distancesfrom the normal or zero position of said device and arms are in inverse'ratio;

, 20. In a machine of the class described, the combination with aweighing mechanism, including a series of electrical contacts for different weights; of a plurallty of movable rate per unit members carrying .a series of electrical contacts for different total amounts; means for moving any one of said members; a plurality of rotary cir-k relatively movable circuit se ecting arms; of a corresponding number of series of contact .points, each positioned. to be swept over by its res ective arm; a signal; circuits including sai signal and said contact points; a weighing mechanism; and means controlled thereby for finally closing the circuit selected by one of the designating device arms.

- 22. The combination with an accounting mechanism'of the weighing mechanism; a rate per unit device; a signal connections intermediate the said mechanisms and device, which include means for bringing said signal into action when the proper quantityhas been placed on the weighing mechanism according to the cash amount of the transaction; means for preventing the operatlon of the signal until-after the accounting mechanism is operated: and actuating means for' said preventive means whereby said prevencuit selecting arms each bearing a' contact .ing total amounts, includin a plurality of' tive means is rendered inefiective upon the operation of the machine. g

In testimony whereof I afix my signature in the presence of two witnesses. Y

' WILLIAM H. MUZZY. Witnesses: a R. W. Famcnmn,

HOWARD S. S. 

